How much to live on per week

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

rubytuesday wrote: »

So think about how your children can create cheap healthy meals (it is possible) encourage them to look at threads on here.

My daughter made herself a chilli - some went in the freezer and the next day she made it into a shepherds pie which gave her two portions.

That is what your children should be doing - looking for cheap healthy recipes.

I was just thinking about this post.

Apparently, this is what your children should be doing - eating lots of lovely healthy meals made with healthy mince "meat"!

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

And when I suggested that "mince" might not be quiet the health food that ruby thought, this was the response

rubytuesday wrote: »

Oh don't be so bloody ridicoulous

That post - thanked by the following:-



AnnBar (11-10-2012), Dunroamin (11-10-2012), looby75 (22-10-2012), rlf1993 (13-10-2012)

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

rubytuesday wrote: »

Perhaps you'd better get yourself over to old style and the frugal threads and warn them of their potential impending demise thanks to a bowl of chilli here and a portion of shepherds pie there.

Or how about a getting the government to issue a warning to students - Danger Death by Shepherds pie!

Now that seems like a good idea.....shame she was only joking!

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Dunroamin wrote: »

Presumably only sirloin steak and fresh tuna are considered healthy by some people with more money than sense.

Or maybe some people know that you get what you pay for?

Or maybe some other people think they can get something for nothing?

Remember Dunroamin



TTFN

looby75

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

And when I suggested that "mince" might not be quiet the health food that ruby thought, this was the response






That post - thanked by the following:-



AnnBar (11-10-2012), Dunroamin (11-10-2012), looby75 (22-10-2012), rlf1993 (13-10-2012)

My daughter buys all her beef mince from a butcher in Granger Market Newcastle. I'm pretty confident that it is 100% beef mince as it's sourced from a local farm, where there are no horses. She also buys pork mince from them too which is cheaper and healthier than beef mince.

rubytuesday

As my daughter has been making her own chilli and shepherds's pie she is unlikely to be neighing.

She doesn't eat ready meal rubbish.

She was also surviving on £40 a week for a while and gave up alcohol for the month of January which has helped considerably.

She's put on a much needed stone as well so her home cooking is helping her thrive.

As stated before she doesn't live by chilli and shepherds's pie alone so what the hell is your problem?!

Dunroamin

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

Or maybe some people know that you get what you pay for?

Or maybe some other people think they can get something for nothing?

Remember Dunroamin



TTFN

Presumably you've never eaten horse meat when abroad and so have no idea how delicious and nutritious it is. Perhaps you should broaden your experience.

Dunroamin

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

But it would be incorrect to put it that way - since the students who get no help from their parents are the ones working - so what you wrote makes no sense.

That's a heck of an assumption and almost certainly incorrect. It certainly isn't something that's stated in the article.

Erinnire

Blimey this thread got abit heated!

Looby, I hope that when/if my girls go to uni, they are as close to me and will happily spend some time nattering to me about things like their food shopping as well as everything else!

They are babies at the moment but I better start learning to cook so I can teach them when the time comes.

chaostheory

PasturesNew wrote: »

I pay £1.78/month for coffee. One cheap instant jar, 200g.

Value coffee has been shown to be full of twigs, dust floor sweepings, mouldy and unripe beans. Some brands in British supermarkets contain up to a fifth of ingredients "not recognised as coffee"

Producers who have less money can't afford to pay for quality control.